Ryan Babel does not believe Hoffenheim’s inconsistent Bundesliga form will affect his chances of making the Netherlands’ Euro 2012 squad.

Hoffenheim have won only one of their last nine Bundesliga games, dropping to eighth on the table, but Babel does not think this poor run of form could harm his chances with Bert van Marwijk’s Netherlands set-up.

Babel, 25, returned the international scene in September 2011 after an absence of 10 months, and the forward is confident that he will make the 23-man roster for the European Championships in Poland and Ukraine.

Fiorentina have signed promising Dane Kenneth Zohore from Copenhagen for an undisclosed fee.

The transfer has been confirmed on the official Serie A website.

Fiorentina have a history of snapping up hot prospects relatively cheap at young age, as they previously did with Adem Ljajic and Stevan Jovetic, and the 18-year-old Zohore fits in with their transfer policy.

Zohore is a product of the Copenhagen youth academy, and made his first team debut only one month after turning 16.

The striker, who has been capped at Under-19 level for Denmark, previously enjoyed trials at Chelsea and Inter, but will now continue his career with Fiorentina.

Dalglish is unhappy after the Eastlands outfit revealed the potential exchange, and reiterated the club’s intentions of having no players coming in or out of Anfield before the end of the transfer window.

The Scot insisted Liverpool will not validate the claims and slammed City’s decision to make the alleged deal public knowledge.

“We’re not going to get involved in justifying what people are saying – we don’t have to. Get City to justify it, not us,” Dalglish said.

“We’re not talking about any specific incident, but if you are going to do business in any way shape or form, no matter what life you are in, you don’t need to disclose it until it’s done.”

“As (Liverpool chairman) Tom Werner said the other day, ‘there’s no point letting the facts get in the way of a good story’, when he was talking about Stewart Downing being bought from a clip off YouTube. Do us a favour.”

The 60-year-old said Liverpool would not be having a similarly hectic end to the January transfer window as they did last time round, and insisted Carroll is perfectly happy at the club.

“Nothing is happening at all and we don’t anticipate it to either. Last year was a bit manic but there’ll be nothing this time,” he said.

“There’s no need for us to pass comment on anything that’s been speculative in any way shape or form. We’ve said what’s going to happen, and that’s nothing. It’s quiet.”

“We don’t have any problems with any of the players, because they are all going nowhere.”

“Andy has said he is very happy here and doesn’t regret coming. That’s the best reference you can get, but for some reason the focus always seems to be on the big fella.”

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning hopes lightning can strike twice when his side meet the New England Patriots in Sunday’s Super Bowl.

Manning led the Giants to a famous Super Bowl victory over the Patriots in 2008 with a last minute drive, while New York has the recent form over New England – clinching a 24-20 win when the sides met in November.

“I think it feels like we’ve played them a decent amount in the last couple of years,” Manning said.

“We’ve played them in the Super Bowl, we’ve played them in the regular season, we have played them close in all of those games so I think you understand that they are very talented.”

“They have the ability to score a lot of points, their defence has the ability to keep you to a minimum of points so it’s going to be a great challenge for both sides.”

Manning said he still sees occasional glimpses of the 2008 Super Bowl and feels he is better equipped to handle the build up to Sunday’s game in Indianapolis because of it.

“It feels very similar,” he said. “I think you’re just excited to be here.”

“Besides that, I think it still comes down to you. You have a great feeling everything is going to work out perfectly, you still want to prepare hard, get all your studying in, make sure you’re doing everything to get your team ready to play.”

“I think that’s still the mentality, it’s all going to come to making sure we play our best football on Sunday, that’s the ultimate goal.”

Eli’s older brother, Colts quarterback Peyton, is normally the talk of Indianapolis but he has been forced to take a back seat having missed the whole season with a neck injury.

Now, it will be Eli who steps into the spotlight on Sunday.

“I really haven’t thought much about playing in Indianapolis,” Eli said.

“It’s not really a time to reflect right now on that so I think it’s just a matter of trying to get ready for the Patriots, trying to get ready to play this game”

“We’ll look back on the fact that (I’m) playing a Super Bowl in the town where Peyton plays NFL for the Colts, we’ll look on that later.”